WASHINGTON — Aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action, President Barack Obama moved ahead Sunday with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, setting up a certain confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states.In finalizing the unprecedented pollution controls, Obama was installing the core of his ambitious and controversial plan to drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions, as he works to secure a legacy on fighting global...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, widely believed to the be the wealthiest American ever to run for president, is nowhere among the ranks of the country's most generous citizens, according to an Associated Press review of his financial records...

HANOVER, Pa. — Many Americans assumed the Confederate flag was retired for good after governors in South Carolina and Alabama removed it from their statehouses this summer and presidential candidates from both parties declared it too...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A person of "interest" has been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer during a traffic stop in Memphis, police said Sunday.Memphis Police Department spokeswoman Karen Rudolph...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Now there are two: Zimbabwe accused a gynecological oncologist from Pennsylvania on Sunday of illegally killing a lion in April, adding to the outcry over a Minnesota dentist the African government wants to extradite for...

Now there are two: Zimbabwe identified a bow-hunting gynecological oncologist from Pennsylvania on Sunday as its suspect in what it calls the illegal killing of a lion in April, adding to the outcry over the Minnesota dentist the African government...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Fire officials in New Hampshire said two firefighters were injured battling a large fire that swept through two buildings in Manchester.Manchester fire officials told WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/1JFMObE) that the...

PORTSMOUTH — When Portsmouth Public Library holds a how-to festival, they are not kidding around.Learn 25 things in 5 hours was the theme and diverse seems too small a word to describe the various offerings. People could learn how...